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The Film Company type holds companies that have funded or released films. It also includes movie studios.
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| x Fox Film |
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The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures, formed in 1915 when founder William Fox merged two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the...
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| x Toho |
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Toho Company Ltd. (東宝株式会社, Tōhō Kabushiki-kaisha, TYO: 9602) is a Japanese film and theatre production/distribution company. It is headquartered in Yūrakuchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. In the...
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| x Pinewood Studios |
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Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. Approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Central London on what was the estate of Heatherden Hall, the studios were created in 1934 by Charles Boot and built...
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| x Twickenham Film Studios |
Twickenham Film Studios is a film studio located in St Margarets, London, England, that is used by many motion picture and television companies. It was established in 1913 by Dr. Ralph Jupp on the site of a former ice-rink. At the time of its...
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| x Lime Grove Studios |
Lime Grove Studios was a film studio complex built by the Gaumont Film Company in 1915 situated in a street named Lime Grove, in Shepherd's Bush, west London, north of Hammersmith and described by Gaumont as "the finest studio in Great Britain and...
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| x Ealing Studios |
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Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London and is officially the oldest film studio in the world and was purposely built for the use of sound in early British films.
The site had...
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| x Hammer Film Productions |
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Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction,...
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| x Gaumont Film Company |
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Gaumont Film Company is a French film production company founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946). It is the oldest running film company in the world. Originally dealing in photographic apparatuses, the company began...
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| x Essanay Studios |
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The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture studio founded in 1907 in the neighborhood of Uptown, Chicago, Illinois by George K. Spoor and Gilbert M. Anderson, originally as the Peerless Film Manufacturing Company, but on...
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| x Merchant Ivory Productions |
Merchant Ivory Productions is a film company founded in 1961 by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. Their films were for the most part directed by the former, produced by the latter, and scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (a noted...
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| x Rank Organisation |
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The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment company formed during 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc. Its film division once distributed Universal Pictures releases in the UK. The company's distinctive opening film sequence of...
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| x Major film studios |
A major film studio is a movie production and distribution company that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box-office revenues in a given market. In the North American, Western, and...
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| x DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme |
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme was a famous film studio in the German Democratic Republic-GDR (the German Democratic Republic is also known as the Deutsche Demokratische Republik-DDR), maybe best known for its fairy tale films. The DEFA-Studio für...
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| x Trigger Street Productions |
Trigger Street Productions is an entertainment production company formed by Kevin Spacey in 1997. Its credits include Beyond the Sea, The United States of Leland and The Big Kahuna on screen, as well as stage productions of The Iceman Cometh and...
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| x Focus Features |
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Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine) is the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign films.
Focus was...
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| x Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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Fox Searchlight Pictures is a film division of 20th Century Fox, established in 1994. It specialises in indie and British films, alongside dramedy and horror, and is variously involved with the production and/or distribution of these films.
In the...
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| x Zeitgeist Films |
Zeitgeist Films is an American independent film distributor based in New York City founded in 1988 by co-Presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. Films distributed by Zeitgeist are strongly auteur-driven by directors such as Christopher Nolan, Guy...
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| x Mosfilm |
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Mosfilm (Russian: Мосфильм, pronounced [məsˈfʲɨlʲm]) is a film studio, which is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky...
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| x Aglet Productions |
Aglet Productions is a "no- and low-budget" movie production company, headed by Karl T. Hirsch and responsible for the 1998 movie Green.
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| x Nikkatsu |
The Nikkatsu Corporation (日活株式会社, Nikkatsu kabushiki kaisha) is a Japanese entertainment company well known for its film and television productions. It is Japan's oldest major movie studio. The name Nikkatsu is an abbreviation of Nippon Katsudō...
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| x Shepperton Studios |
Shepperton Studios is a film studio in Shepperton, Surrey, England with a history dating back to 1931. A part of the Pinewood Group along with Pinewood and Teddington Studios, it has produced many notable films.
Scottish businessman Norman Loudon...
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| x Fox Entertainment Group |
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Fox Entertainment Group is an American entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial, cable, and direct broadcast satellite television properties. It is wholly owned and controlled by the media conglomerate News Corporation...
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Kinostudiya "Lenfilm" (Russian: Киностудия Ленфи́льм) is a production unit of the Russian film industry, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is a corporation...
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| x Elstree Studios |
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Historically, the name "Elstree Studios" refers to any of several film studios that were based in the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in Hertfordshire, England.
Despite being called “Elstree Studios” only one studio was actually located in Elstree...
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| x Amicus Productions |
Amicus Productions is a British film production company, based at Shepperton Studios, England. It was founded by American producer and screenwriter Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg.
Amicus is perhaps best known for Subotsky's own trademark...
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| x Leavesden Film Studios |
Leavesden Film Studios is a film and media complex constructed on the site of the former Rolls-Royce factory at Leavesden Aerodrome, which was an important centre of aircraft production during World War II. It is situated in west Hertfordshire...
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| x October Films |
October Films was a U.S. independent film production company and distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film Life Is Sweet.
A series of mergers and acquisitions began when Universal Pictures ...
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| x Castle Rock Entertainment |
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Castle Rock Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn. Originally an independent company, today, it is a subsidiary of Warner Bros....
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| x LUX |
LUX is the principal centre for the promotion and distribution of experimental film and video works in the UK.
It has one of the largest collections of experimental film and video art and houses works of over 1000 artists. It was formed in the 1990s...
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| x Dimension Films |
Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films. The Weinstein Brothers took this label with them when they...
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| x Film4 Productions |
Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel 4. The company has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom. The company's first production was Walter, directed by Stephen Frears, which...
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| x Ruby-Spears Productions |
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Ruby-Spears Productions (also known as Ruby-Spears Enterprises) was a Burbank, California-based entertainment production company that specializes in animation. The firm was founded in 1977 by veteran writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears.
The firm's...
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| x Keystone Studios |
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Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company. The company filmed...
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a.k.a. Cartoon (sometimes stylized as a.k.a. CARTOON) is a Canadian animation company located in Vancouver, BC. It was founded on April 1, 1994, by Danny Antonucci.
a.k.a. created and produced The Brothers Grunt for MTV but is best known for Ed, Edd...
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| x Gainsborough Pictures |
Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London. The studio was active between 1924 and 1951. Built as a power station...
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| x Mandalay Entertainment |
Mandalay Entertainment (ch: 曼德勒娛樂製作有限公司)is a film production company, founded in 1995. They partner with Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures and others for most of their films (the best known probably being I Know What You Did...
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| x Fresco Pictures |
Fresco Pictures is a relatively young film company, formed in 1996 and based in Los Angeles. The principals of the corporation are Peter Johnson and science fiction author Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game.
Current works in progress are:...
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| x Jim Henson's Creature Shop |
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop is a company founded in 1979 by puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets.
It was originally created as a result of the observation that the team that had been put together for The Dark Crystal was extremely hard to...
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| x Bad Robot Productions |
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Bad Robot Productions (formerly known as only Bad Robot) is a production company owned by J. J. Abrams. It is responsible for the television series Alias, Lost, What About Brian, Fringe, Six Degrees, and the feature length films Star Trek (2009) and...
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| x 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks |
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40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks is the production company of noted American filmmaker Spike Lee (born 1957).
The company is named for a famous episode of early Reconstruction. In 1865, General Sherman issued "Special Field Order 15", which ordered the...
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| x Jim Henson Pictures |
Jim Henson Pictures is a United States-based movie studio, specializing in family films. It was founded by Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company in 1997. Prior to that Henson films were released under the production banners of...
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| x Zagreb Film |
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Zagreb Film is a Croatian film-producing company from Zagreb, founded in 1953. They have produced hundreds of animated films, documentaries, television commercials, educational films and several feature films.
Their probably most famous product was...
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| x Seven sisters |
The seven sisters of the Hollywood film industry were the major movie studios of the period between the early 1980s, when the Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group emerged as a major, and 2005, when MGM was acquired by a consortium...
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| x Pathé |
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This article deals with the Pathé movie company. For their music business, see Pathé Records.
Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.
Founded as Société Pathé Frères...
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| x Denham Film Studios |
Denham Film Studios were a British film production studio operating from 1936 to 1952.
The studios were founded by Alexander Korda, on a 165 acre (668,000 m²) site near the village of Denham, Buckinghamshire. At the time it was the largest facility...
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| x Soyuzmultfilm |
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Soyuzmultfilm (Russian: Coюзмультфильм, translated as Union Animation) is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Over the years it has gained international attention and respect, garnering numerous awards both at home and abroad. Noted for a...
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| x Marvel Studios |
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Marvel Studios is an American television and motion picture studio based in Beverly Hills, California.
Marvel Studios was formed in the late 1990s following Revlon CEO Ronald Perelman's acquisition of parent company Marvel Entertainment. This...
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| x Victor Studios |
The Victor Film Company was a motion picture company formed in 1912 by movie star Florence Lawrence and her husband, Harry Solter. The company established Victor Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, to capitalize on Lawrence's fame. At a time when...
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| x Prana Film |
Prana Film was a short-lived silent-era German film studio. Its intent was to produce occult and supernatural themed films. Its only film, 1922's Nosferatu, was its end: it declared bankruptcy in order to dodge copyright infringement suits from Bram...
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| x EMKA, Ltd. |
EMKA, Ltd. is an in-name-only division of Universal Studios' television unit whose sole function is overseeing Paramount Pictures' pre-1950 feature film library. EMKA was formed by MCA (Music Corporation of America) in 1957 (the company's name is a...
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| x Rolling Thunder Pictures |
Rolling Thunder Pictures was a short-lived film distribution company, set up under Miramax Films by producer Lawrence Bender and Quentin Tarantino, that was headed by Jerry Martinez and Tarantino. It specialized on releasing independent, cult, or...
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| x American Mutoscope and Biograph Company |
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The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company was founded in 1895, and the oldest motion pictures and entertainment company in America and in existance today. The company was originally called 'American Mutoscope Company' and was started by...
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| x Kino International |
Kino International is a film and video distributor, founded in 1977. Kino, based in New York City, specializes in art house films, such as low-budget current films, classic films from earlier periods in the history of cinema, and world cinema....
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| x Troublemaker Studios |
Troublemaker Studios is a film production company owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and his ex-wife, producer Elizabeth Avellan. Originally founded as Los Hooligans Productions, its releases include Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the Spy Kids trilogy...
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| x ABC Circle Films |
ABC Circle Films (also known as ABC Productions) was the ABC film and TV production division. It was well known for producing many TV shows such as Moonlighting and America's Funniest Home Videos . The company was named after the ABC Circle logo....
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| x Nickelodeon Movies |
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Nickelodeon Movies is the motion picture production arm of children's cable channel Nickelodeon, originally launched in 1995. Its first film was Harriet the Spy. It has produced films based on Nickelodeon programs, as well as other adaptations and...
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| x MTV Films |
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MTV Films is the motion picture production arm of cable channel MTV. Founded in 1996, it has produced films based on MTV programs such as Beavis and Butt-head Do America and Jackass: The Movie, as well as other adaptations and original projects. Its...
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| x Hoojoo |
Hoojoo Productions Ltd is an independent film production company located in Liphook, Hampshire in the South of the United Kingdom, which produces work for the film, television and the festival market.
Their released films include:
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| x Central casting |
Central Casting is a casting company located in Burbank, California. They currently specialize in casting extras, body doubles, and stand-ins.
Central Casting was established in 1925 initially as a wing of the major Hollywood movie studios. By the...
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| x Fox Studios Australia |
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Fox Studios Australia is a major movie studio located in Sydney, Australia, occupying the site of the former Sydney Showground at Moore Park. Since opening in May 1998, the studio has been involved in the production of a number of blockbusters,...
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